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THURSDAY,Li OCTOBERf 22,e 2020 SECTION! B Unknown got you down? Take self-care time By Ashley Mahoney [email protected] Every day in 2020 presents new unknowns. TROY HULL | THE CHARLOTTE POST So much uncertainty for such a prolonged period The Lowe’s Foundation donated $100,000 to the Save Siloam School Project for renovation and education programming for of time can produce stress, which can physically the former school for African Americans. The Charlotte Museum of History is leading the project. manifest in how we function on a daily basis. Social and racial injustice were traumatic before COVID-19. Add a pan- demic, economic uncertainty, a polar- izing presidential election and flu season around the corner. The year is Donation for historic not over yet, but it sure is a trying one. Dr. Sashalee Stewart, a psychiatrist and lead clinician at the new Women’s Stewart Center at Novant Health’s SouthPark Medical Plaza, is seeing what women are going school’s restoration through firsthand. “As humans, we are not great with the unknown,” Lowe’s Foundation gift aids transition of Siloam School project Stewart said. “The unknown causes us a lot of stress human resources and chair of the vide our community with a tan- and anxiety. That’s one thing that we have been ex- By Ashley Mahoney Lowe’s Foundation said in a state- gible experience of this history. posed to this year—every day is another unknown, [email protected] ment. “Preserving the historic Si- It’s a story that we need to under- and this is one of the times that everyone across the The Charlotte Museum of His- loam School means saving and stand so that together we can globe is affected by the pandemic. tory is one step closer to relocat- restoring a critical piece of Char- build a more just and equitable “This has been a trying year for everyone, and I’m ing and renovating the historic lotte history that will educate gen- community.” definitely seeing a lot of patients coming in with anx- Siloam School. erations to come, and Lowe’s is Currently, Siloam sits at its orig- iety and depression for a number of different rea- The Lowe’s Foundation donated proud to be a part of this powerful inal site on Mallard Highlands sons,” Stewart said. “Just everything happening all $100,000 to the Save Siloam work.” Drive near UNC Charlotte, and be- at one time is a recipe for added stressors.” School Project, $50,000 in ren- The Save Siloam School Project hind an apartment complex Many people are experiencing changes at home ovation supplies and $50,000 in has raised $355,000 of the in- owned by Tribute Companies. A and work because of the pandemic. Normal has com- support of educational program- tended $1 million. Major contrib- marker denoting the historic sig- pletely gone out the window. Yet Black women often ing that will take place at the utions came from the City of nificance of the site would be feel the need to take care of everyone and every- school once it is operational. Next Charlotte and Mecklenburg placed at the original thing, which prior to a pandemic was a lot. Now, it’s the museum will launch a formal County, which donated $50,000 location once the a monumental task. Request for Qualification process, and $125,000 respectively in school is moved. On The Net Stewart encourages the development of a routine which will appoint an architect to 2019. In 2016, the to provide some sense of stability during the ons- https://char- lead the restoration and reloca- “The $1 million fundraising goal Historic Land- lottemu- laught of unknowns. tion. for the project includes restoring, marks Commis- “Developing a routine is going to be really, really seum.org/silo “Lowe’s is committed to making relocating and preserving the sion estimated it am/ helpful, and kind of paramount, because that is help- homes better for all, and that def- school, as well as developing a his- would cost ful for the women I see,” she said. “It’s helpful for inition of home extends into our tory exhibit about the Siloam $50,000 to relocate their children because a lot of children are getting neighborhoods and communities, School and Rosenwald schools the building and an additional affected by this as well. If mom is very anxious or particularly here in our hometown generally,” said Adria Focht, pres- $150,000 to restore it for use. she is depressed and not interacting with them as of Charlotte,” Janice Dupré Little, ident and CEO of the Charlotte much, that also impacts the children in a very big executive vice president of Lowe’s Museum of History. “This will pro- way. Just being able to reassure [children] and have Please see DONATION |2B some consistency in their lives in a time when things Please see UNKNOWN |2B Remove stigma Gifts for housing and new library By Ashley Mahoney Tryon Street, Sugar Creek Road and Interstate 85 as [email protected] from addiction to well as West Boulevard. The Lowe’s Foundation The Lowe’s funding will committed $9.25 million to facilitate the city’s Safe help treatment the Charlotte area. Home Rehabilitation Pro- BRANDPOINT The city of Charlotte gram, which helps with es- Housing and Neighbor- Addiction is a chronic but treatable medical con- sential home repairs as hood Services, which re- dition. well as older residents age- ceived $1.33 million to Often unintentionally, many people still talk about in-place while protecting rehabilitate and preserve addiction in ways that are stigmatizing-meaning low-moderate income fam- single-family affordable they use words that can portray someone with a sub- ilies from being pushed housing along the Beatties stance use disorder in a shameful way, which may out by gentrification. Eligi- Ford Road Corridor, in- discourage them from seeking treatment. To reduce ble homeowners will re- tends to use the funding in harmful stigma and negativity around substance use ceive funding for repairs to conjunction with the Corri- disorders and encourage people to obtain the help bring their residence to dors of Opportunity pro- they need, it is essential to change the way society compliance with city code, gram, which was views addiction. decrease exposure to lead- announced in September The first step is to understand why this stigma ex- based paint, which can CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY along with their $24.5 mil- ists, and how we all can help to remove it. create critical health con- lion investment. Beatties Lowe’s donated $1 million to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library What is stigma? cerns for children under Ford Road is the first of six Foundation for a new technology center. Stigma can be defined as an attribute that is deeply age 6 as well as providing selected corridors for the discrediting, reducing the bearer from a whole and energy efficient and water Mecklenburg Library Foun- cally a technology center, initiative, along with Cen- usual person to a tainted, discounted one. Stigma saving retrofits, which will dation’s $135 million pub- which will be named the tral Avenue and Albemarle about people with substance use disorders might in- help reduce a residents lic-private campaign. The Lowe’s Technology Lab. In Road; Freedom Drive and clude inaccurate or unfounded beliefs that they are utility bills. donation will go toward addition to the technology Wilkinson Boulevard; Gra- dangerous, incapable of managing treatment, or at Lowe’s also donated $1 building the new Main Li- center, the 115,000 square ham Street and North million to the Charlotte brary in Uptown, specifi- Please see OVERCOMING | 2B Please see GIFTS | 3B

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Platinum package, • OK fuel economy The CT5 is a well-bal- all-wheel drive, twin turbo • Pricey with options anced automobile that will V6, driver assist, driver Email Winfred Cross at coddle you with a number awareness plus and slick [email protected] Unknown got you down? of standard amenities green paint added $17,705 Take some self-care time Continued from page 1B they don’t have time. ful during that time. Even are so uncertain is really, “The thing that I hear going to the bathroom with really paramount. That is from patients all the time little children, sometimes one of the primary things is ‘I do not have time to they will follow you in that I talk to them about.” take care of myself, be- there. It can be a challenge, While working from cause I’m looking after but try to fit [breaks and home has become a fixture this, this and this, and self-care] in when you for many people, it can be there is just not enough can.” easy to hit the gas all day time in the day,’” Stewart On the Net: and never pause for a said. “Try to fit things in www.novanthealth.org/n break. Stewart encourages when you can. If you are ovant-health/charlotte- finding time for self-care, taking a shower, try to do area/womens-center- even for those who say some meditation. Be mind- southpark.aspx Overcoming the stigma of addiction key to treatment GETTY IMAGES Continued from page 1B The good news is that compassion. A good night's sleep can help you deal with the stress of day-to-day life as well as the COVID-19 fault for their condition. treatment can help set the To start, making simple pandemic. Stigma’s origins brain on a path to recov- changes in language can Stigma around addiction ery. help reduce harmful neg- may come from old and Addiction is a lot like ativity around substance inaccurate ideas, or fear of other diseases, such as use disorders. When talk- Improve your mental health things that are different or type 2 diabetes. Both dis- ing to or about people with misunderstood. Research rupt the normal, healthy substance use disorders, has shown that public atti- functioning of the body, consider using person-first with better sleep regimen both have serious harmful language, which focuses tudes and beliefs about volves taking slow, deep breaths and effects for those affected, on the person-not their ill- FAMILY FEATURES addiction are also affected slowly tensing the muscles in your body both are influenced by the ness. This includes remov- by how it is presented in For some, the holidays may be the hap- for a few seconds then relaxing them. environments the person ing words that define a the media. piest season of all, but for others the hec- Start at your feet and work your way up lives in and both are, in person by their condition For example, TV shows tic pace and endless to-do lists can take a the body. This technique can help you many cases, preventable or may have negative con- and movies often portray real toll on their mental health. This year, relax and decompress after a long day. and treatable. notations. characters with substance the impact is heightened by a global Give yourself a break. Especially if If left untreated, they can For example, "a person use disorders negatively. health pandemic. you’re working from home or tackling a get worse and may lead to with a substance use dis- These depictions can in- According to a survey from Mattress lot of seasonal tasks, it’s easy to keep disabilities and death. Just order" has a neutral tone crease fear, pity and even Firm, more than 60 million Americans say yourself busy up until the minute you fall like with many other health and separates the person anger toward people with COVID-19 has worsened their quality of into bed. However, your mind may still be conditions, people with from his or her disorder. substance use disorders. their sleep, and those losing sleep are whirling from all that activity. Build in a substance use disorders Someone who is working In addition, people with often seeing their mental well-being and few minutes before bed each night to let can recover and continue to overcome drug use can substance use disorders healthy habits worsen. Nearly half of re- your mind rest, whether it’s spending a to lead healthy lives with be described as a "person may feel ashamed of their spondents said COVID-19 has increased few minutes with a good book, practicing the appropriate support. in recovery." addiction and their diffi- their worries and prevented them from meditation or sipping on a cup of sleepy- A number of factors, Importantly, check in culty in stopping drugs or falling or staying asleep at night, with 41% time tea. most of them outside of with friends or loved ones alcohol. This may discour- reported their poor sleep has a negative Appeal to your senses. Being mindful of one's control, make people about how they refer to age them from reaching impact on their daily lives. how your senses react to various stimuli more vulnerable to add- themselves and how they out to others or seeking “It’s no surprise that when our minds can play a role in your ability to drift off iction. These factors in- would like others to refer treatment. are full or our hearts are heavy, our men- to sleep. Some people need silence; clude genetics and family to them. This can be one Truth about addiction tal health tends to suffer,” said Dr. Sujay others benefit from ambient sound. Cer- history, the environment step toward opening up a Addiction was once con- Kansagra, a sleep health expert for Mat- tain scents can be soothing and make in which they grew up, dialogue from which to sidered to be due to a tress Firm. “What many people don’t re- good choices for essential oil diffusers, trauma or co-occurring learn about each other and weakness in a person's alize is that mental health struggles also such as lavender oil. Also be conscious of mental health issues, and offer compassion and sup- character. But decades of affect sleep, and adequate rest is a key the touches that affect your sleep, like the many other social and be- port. scientific research have component of maintaining and improv- support from your mattress, the softness havioral factors. Ulti- We can also educate our- demonstrated that add- ing your mental health.” of your sheets or the temperature of the mately, addiction doesn't selves on the facts about iction is not a choice. If stress and worry are preventing you room. discriminate. It can impact addiction. It's important to According to the National from getting a good night of sleep, try Whether it’s your family, your health or people of all ages, races, seek science-based infor- Institute on Drug Abuse, it these ideas from Kansagra to help im- general stress that’s keeping you up, find genders, and social classes. mation from a trustworthy is a brain disorder that in- prove your mental state and ease your time in your day to give yourself some source. And we can share volves functional changes Overcoming stigma body into rest. grace. Your mental health is extremely that information with to brain circuits involved Reducing stigma and Think positively. Every night before important and should not be overlooked, others to help them over- in reward, stress, and self- helping people achieve going to bed, list three good things from so if you’re feeling a little worn down, en- come their own mispercep- control. These brain their best health outcomes your day. They don't have to be amazing sure you’re getting the quality sleep you tions about addiction. changes can make it ex- starts with each of us. By things, just three positive aspects of your need to tackle the day and week ahead. Learn more about how traordinarily difficult for a paying attention to our day. For example, acknowledge you had Find more tips for better sleep at Mat- drug use and addiction af- person to resist the urge to own attitudes and beliefs a good virtual catch-up with a colleague tressFirm.com. fect the brain at www.dru- continue using drugs, even about addiction, we can or enjoyed a new recipe or workout class. What’s keeping you awake? gabuse.gov. if their drug use is causing consciously begin to re- Listing your positive experiences at night If you’re like many Americans, outside problems at home, work, place any fears and judg- can help you maintain a positive frame of influences and worries may affect your or school. ments with respect and mind as you unwind for the day. sleep. Pinpointing what’s keeping you Create a to-do list. This technique is for awake, such as these common sleep dis- those who mentally work through their ruptors reported in a Mattress Firm sur- list of pending responsibilities before vey, can help you address your concerns bed. In a fast-paced world, sometimes so you can rest more easily. Gifts for housing and new lying in bed is the first time you have to 1. Money or Paying Bills (49%) actually think about what’s on your list. 2. My or My Family’s Health (48%) By creating a list of tasks (or even writing 3. State of Country and the Economy down your worries), you can prevent (39%) Mecklenburg library yourself from thinking about them exces- 4. My Kids and Their Health or Educa- sively before bed and throughout the three, with special collec- edge.” tion (32%) Continued from page 1B night. 5. Missing Social Interaction (31%) feet new Main Library will tions, the Robinson-Span- Said Library Foundation Try progressive relaxation. This in- feature updated support gler Carolina Room as well Executive Director Jenni services and general li- as theater and staff space Gaisbauer: “The Library brary operations. Demoli- on level four. The fifth and has enjoyed a partnership tion is scheduled for 2021. final level will house ad- with Lowe’s since 2016, The new building will in- ministrative offices, a and they’ve invested in our Serve up Salisbury Steak for a clude a lower level for reading room, writer’s stu- community through event space, a new main dio and porch, as well as an branch enhancements, entrance facing Tryon outdoor terrace. event sponsorships, and a special centerpiece seasonal dish “We are committed to dynamic makerspace at Street on level one as well the most by serving up a 1 pound Omaha Steaks making homes better for the recently renovated FAMILY FEATURES as a café entrance, lobby, flavorful main course to premium ground beef, all, and our definition of North County Regional Li- immersive theater area, Enjoying a meal together please nearly everyone’s thawed home extends beyond four brary location. 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ASHLEY MAHONEY| THE CHARLOTTE POST Monique Luck’s “I Feel Forever” is part of Inter | Sectionality at the Gantt Center. Water and exploration of emotion By Ashley Mahoney [email protected] Monique Luck created work that takes you in for the latest exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture. The Charlotte based mixed media art- ist is one of two guest artists, along with Stephanie J. Woods, featured in “Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art From the Creole City,” which opened on Oct. 1 and runs through January. The exhibit also features 25 Miami based artists representing 17 countries. Luck’s work can be seen on the first floor of the Gantt, encompassing most of the space. Luck’s on-site installation of “I Feel Forever” uses water to explore human emotion. “I have always been drawn to water and the emotional impact it has—just how we are made up of water, and how our emotional body is like body, and how water holds memories—all of that,” said Luck, who often features ASHLEY MAHONEY| THE CHARLOTTE POST water elements in her work. Inspiration for the work came from a Charlotte artist DeNeer Davis painted the “C” on this steel warehouse door at Camp North End as part of the We previous project, where she was work- Are Hip Hop initiative to connect communities and hip hop culture. ing with community members who would leave anonymous notes about grief and loss. “One of the memories that someone left was called ‘I feel forever in my grasp,’” Luck said. “It was this beautiful Art and soul of the story of recovery and strength. It was really touching. I created a piece of work from that. It was a figure sub- merged in water who was holding out, or gasping for the future, and it was un- known but there was confidence.” hip hop community The original, which was on a 36-inch by 48-inch canvas, was taken to the Ba- hamas in 2019, but soon washed away. We Are Hip Hop festival reveal Nov. 6-8 at Camp North End “Last fall it was engulfed and de- By Ashley Mahoney nounced the festival in August, it is all very family oriented.” which was organized by visual artist Rogers envisions taking We Are Hip stroyed by Hurricane Dorian,” Luck [email protected] said. “It literally was taken out to sea. Bree Stallings, Heal Charlotte founder Hop across the city. That whole experience with what hap- The word of the year is pivot, which Greg Jackson, renowned slammaster “It is about engaging people where pened to Dorian and everyone there is what the organizers of the inaugu- Boris “Bluz” Rogers and CrayzeeBeat they are, where they live and impact was really devastating. It kind of re- ral We Are Hip Hop Festival have Dance founder A.J. Glasco. those neighborhoods,” Rogers said. minds you that, ‘yes, we love this water, done. “The festival is about hip hop,” said “I want to engage folks in their neigh- but it holds this power, and it has some The festival was set to debut this Rogers, who joined Blumenthal in borhoods where they don’t have ac- destructive power as well, and it is un- month, but due to the ongoing September as director of creative en- cess to Uptown, because if you have seen.’” COVID-19 pandemic, indoor per- gagement. “It is centered around the to take a bus, a train—I would really Luck revisited these themes for the formances have been postponed. elements of hip hop, the culture, the love if I could just come to the East Gantt exhibit, as much of 2020 for Until then, organizers are creating an life the dance, the clothes, the music, side and the West side and do some- people all over the world has felt as un- outdoor experience. “We Are Hip but The Reveal is really going to be thing right there that centers around certain, and in some cases as destruc- Hop: The Reveal” will take place at about expressing the dance part and the arts and centers around whatever tive as the waters churned by a Camp North End Nov. 6-8 as a pre- the emcee part. We are going to have that artist is doing in their neighbor- hurricane. view of the Jan. 21-24 festival at DJ elements to it too. Saturday [Nov. hood. That’s what we are hoping to Please see MONIQUE | 9B Booth Playhouse. 7] is our bigger event. So, we will do in this pandemic pivot. We are Blumenthal Performing Arts an- have graffiti situations going on, and Please see FESTIVAL | 8B « MOVIE REVIEW Charming ‘Over the Theater veterans lead boot camp for students By Ashley Mahoney Moon’ gets [email protected] Professional live theater may be on pause, but training continues for aspir- ing students. lost in orbit Blumenthal Performing Arts presents By Mark Kennedy Broadway Bootcamp on Oct. 24 at 9 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a.m. in Spirit Square in Uptown for a day of hands on instruction from guest The acclaimed animator behind such teaching artists Will Branner (“Mean powerful figures as Ariel, Aladdin, Tar- Girls” first national tour), Amina Faye zan and Rapunzel has a new heroine (Jimmy Awards Best Actress 2016), and she’s going further than any of his Tyler McKenzie (“Hamilton”), Danielle creations — the moon. Wade (“Mean Girls” Broadway) and di- Twelve-year-old Fei Fei builds a hand- rector Martin Damien Wilkins. Inter- made rocket to blast into outer space in mediate and advanced theater students the new Netflix movie musical “Over the in grades 8-12 are eligible to partici- Moon,” the first animated film backed pate, and scholarships are available. by a major Hollywood studio to feature “There is work to be created in spite an entirely Asian cast. of, and we are all having to learn what The film stars newcomer Cathy Ang as a post-pandemic world looks like for our plucky heroine, backed by such live performance,” said Wilkins, a Char- voice actors as “Hamilton” star Phillipa lotte Latin School alumnus. “It is going Soo, comedians Ken Jeong and Margaret to be trepidatious for a while. Ob- BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS Cho, “Star Trek” star John Cho, Broad- viously, for example, the announce- way veterans Ruthie Ann Miles and Ki- ment that Broadway is not opening Director Martin Damien Wilkins will lend his teaching and mentoring skills at Broadway Boot- miko Glenn, and “Killing Eve” star until at least May is showing us how camp Oct. 24 at Spirit Square. Sandra Oh. much that ball is still up in the air.” It opens and closes in modern day Wilkins, a stage director and pro- name a few. live theater is to continue to train de- China, but the bulk of the film is set in ducer who has worked all over the “When you are talking with live spite the uncertainty of when live the- Lunaria, an imaginary kingdom on the country, is now based in Charlotte. His people who are excited about live the- ater will return. dark side of the moon that’s filled with directing credits range from Tony ater, because we are competing with a “When it starts to come back you will glowing, bubblegum-colored blobs and Kushner’s “Angels in America, Parts 1 lot of screens from television, video be ready, and you will also be ready in where the laws of physics are tossed & 2” with Actor’s Express to Robert games, tablets, all those things, and to a way that for those of us who have out. O’Hara’s “Bootycandy” with Actor’s have young people still see the value of been doing this for years had to accli- The transition — from hyperreal Theatre of Charlotte to Terry Teach- live performance is always exciting,” mate ourselves to the idea of ‘what do cooked crabs that glisten in a bowl in out’s “Satchmo at the Waldorf” at B Wilkins said. you do if you are not walking into a the- the first 30 minutes of the film to amor- Street Theatre to Jocelyn Bioh’s “Afri- His advice for aspiring artists who ater and performing or directing?’” Wil- Please see NETFLIX’S | 9B can American” at Howard University, to want to pursue work in the world of Please see PROFESSIONAL | 8B 8B A&E | The Charlotte Post Thursday, October 22, 2020 Festival honors art, soul of hip hop community Continued from page 7B painted by Stallings. Camp have their murals in Dur- hoping to get folks work- North End provided a sti- ham,” King Carla said. “We ing and back to work, not pend for the materials to have Elevator Jay for a por- just up here, but where create the murals, and also trait. Let’s shout out Lute. I they live. This is a shout matched the stipends that chose Lute’s lyrics because out to you. If you know a the artists received from I could feel where he was person in your neighbor- Blumenthal. coming from. While we are hood who is super dope, Below are the artist two different people, our and you think of a space names and their Instagram families share similar that is out there, let me handles: paths. His family came out know.” C-DeNeer Davis @neer- of Second Ward, my family The festival in all of its perfection came out of Second Ward, layers is designed to repre- H-Garrison Gist and we both grew up in dif- sent hip hop in its truest @2gzandcountin ferent locations on Beatties form. For Jackson, a Bronx A-Mike Wirth @mikewirth Ford Road. That’s some- native, it serves as a way of R-Dammit Wesley @dam- thing that is extremely im- taking the struggle and mit_wesley portant, and I wanted to turning it into something L-Stallings @breequixote highlight the things that he O-Chad Cartwright was sharing in ‘GED: Get- magical. BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS “For me hip hop is defi- @chdwckart ting’ Every Dolla,’ and I nitely a heartbeat,” he said. T-Owl @owl.clt also wanted to highlight Jimmy Award winner Amina Faye will teach acting through song at the Broad- “It is the blood that runs T-Carla Aaron-Lopez some of the things he said way Boot Camp sponsored by Blumenthal Performing Arts. through my veins. It is a @iamkingcarla in ‘Under the Sun.’” lifeline. It is something that E-Frankie Zombie @fran- Her mural also features I can attach myself to—that kie.zombie_ an upside-down, crossed Professional theater veterans I can identify with. Hip hop Logo: @marcus_kiser and out crown for King Carla. is a transformation of @infamousjeanclaude “I tell people all the time, people who have seen the “One of the things that ‘you ain’t never gone give lead boot camp for aspiring worst in life and find a way I’m seeing that Camp me the crown, because I’m to make it look so beautiful North End is doing right is a woman, and you’re defi- and it gets elevated, and they’re actually allowing nitely not going to give me students at Spirit Square then they get elevated in the people of Charlotte to the crown because I’m a life because of the stories dictate the culture of radical woman, so I’m Continued from page 7B pursue a practical career by her par- that they are telling. Hip Charlotte on this going to steal it and kins said. “[Younger artists] are sort of ents and had every intention of pur- hop is the CNN for Black property,” said On The Net make it my own.’” plugged into the virtual world already. suing law as a profession until her America.” Dammit Wesley, Make sure you It will be really interesting to see what senior year of high school. Then she who co-owns www.blumentha- check out the The November event will larts.org/events/d they start to create for themselves in was nominated for the Blumey Award be free and open to the BLKMRKTCLT, a mural at night, this realm, but the training should still for Best Actress as a junior and a sen- studio space at etail/we-are-hip- as it changes public. Camp North End’s hop-the-reveal continue. The learning should still ior. The Blumeys are the highest rec- 76-acre site allows for Camp North End. based on light hit- continue.” ognition for high school theater better social distancing “If you go to any ting it. Faye will teach acting through song students in the region, and winners than this month’s pre- major city, you can For Frankie Zombie, during Broadway Bootcamp. qualify for the Jimmy Awards, the viously planned intimate kind of read the culture the project has several Faye is a 2020 graduate of Penn high school equivalent of the Tony. theater experience. that exists within that city layers. One pays homage State University and an alumna of While she did not win the 2015 Blu- “People will be able to be through their public arts. to growing up in the Bronx. Central Academy of Technology & mey, she felt validated by not only safely spaced out and still Charlotte, I don’t want to He also drew inspiration Arts in Union County. She spent fall of earning it in 2016, as well as sweeping participate in an event,” say they are the most con- from Wu-Tang Clan, draw- 2019 as the lead Susannah Son in to the Jimmy Award in New York. Her Stallings said. servative place, because ing a parallel between the “Love in Hate Nation” before returning parents agreed, and supported her We Are Hip Hop follows they’re not, but there is a group’s nine members and to school for her final semester in the decision to pursue musical theater at the success of Breakin’ conservative air about how the nine artists who spring. Penn State. Convention, a London- they go about things—very created the mural. The pandemic shifted her world “I really credit Blumenthal for hav- based international festival stuffy, businesslike, and “Individually we are all from performing eight shows a day to ing the Blumey Awards, for having that came to Charlotte each the idea that a slate, grey super dope, super creative, spending the last eight months at this outlet and achievement where fall from 2015-17. Each walls of gentrification are super talented,” Frankie home. During that time she has ex- young people like me who are kind of year local artists would going to attract more Zombie said. “We have our plored the realm of directing at CATA, just looking for someone to say, ‘you paint the columns at people to the city, or at own individual nuances something she would not have had can do this, and you are good at this,’ Knight Theater, including least increase the value of that make us who we are in time for prior to the pandemic. While is really what gave me the confidence DeNeer Davis, a West Char- your city is a little short- the art world, but collec- she will never take another perform- to be like, ‘hey, Mom and Dad, I’m lotte native, who also par- sighted and ignorant… tively we turn into the ance for granted, Faye is thankful for going to do this,’ and also it gave them ticipated in the latest Camp North End is a good Avengers and just show the opportunities to teach. the confidence to be like, ‘look at how mural concept. Davis be- example of how new prop- the city and show the state “I realized that I love teaching,” she you are being regarded in your com- came involved with Blu- erties and businesses of North Carolina and said. “It exercises a different part of munity, maybe you can do this.’” menthal through Breakin’ should allow the people show us how much we can my artistic brain.” On the Net: Convention. Now the goal around them to tell the stick together and broad- Faye, the daughter of immigrants www.blumenthalarts.org/events/de- is to bring art programs to stories of said com- cast any message possible, from Senegal, was first encouraged to tail/broadway-bootcamp underserved neighbor- munity.” whether it’s this or the hoods. King Carla’s work pays Black Lives Matter mural “We didn’t have arts pro- homage to Beatties Ford [on Tryon Street]. I wanted grams,” Davis said of Road, where she grew up. to connect the fact of nine growing up on West Boule- The text-based artist con- individual artists coming vard. “We were mostly tinues to expand on the together to create some- meant to be rappers, bas- scope the text with each thing super special here in ketball players—the norm. project, from the West End Camp North End.” I grew up in Wilmore, so we Mural on Beatties Ford Frankie Zombie is known had to create our own Road in July to work com- for using a myriad of things. Them seeing me do missioned for former vice colors in his work, but in- art and making it with the president Joe Biden’s pres- stead of going that route, art is very meaningful for idential campaign last he decided to use multiple all of us as a culture.” month to the Tin Charlotte. shades of pink in honor of Our health Now they have a bigger She wanted her work to re- October serving as breast canvas. Stallings noticed flect Charlotte’s soul, so cancer awareness month. is on the multiple empty doors at she went with lyrics from “My mom was diagnosed Camp North End, and saw Grammy-nominated with stage four breast ballot. a space for opportunity. rapper Luther “Lute” Nich- cancer about three, four This allows for an element olson, a fellow Beatties years ago and she is still of the street art component Ford Road native. fighting strong,” Frankie Let’s use to already be in place with “We are doing a Charlotte Zombie said. “Although my 10 murals at Camp North mural, and it is going to be followers know me as the End, featuring local artists. a festival called We Are Hip guy who uses every color our power The doors were painted to Hop, then I want to shout in the spectrum, I just spell out Charlotte, fol- Lute out, because DaBaby wanted to take a moment now. lowed by the We Are Hip definitely has his own to shed some love and Hop logo, which was de- super bomb mural some- light on breast cancer signed by Marcus Kiser and where in town, and then J. awareness as well with the Infamous Jean Claude and Cole and Little Brother different shades [of pink].”

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This year, we vote for our rights, for our lives, for our future. EVAN AGOSTINI | INVISION VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Billy Porter attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York on Jan. 8. Porter narrates “EQUAL,” a new docuseries on HBO Max that traces the history of the gay rights movement through the Stonewall uprising in 1969. People are already voting. Our community is showing up. Make a plan to vote and Billy Porter helps examine the encourage your community to do the same. origins of gay rights movement By Jocelyn Noveck series “Pose” is returning he narrates “EQUAL,” a new to production. He’s soon to docuseries on HBO Max Go to >> THE ASSOCIATED PRESS appear in the “Cinderella” that traces the history of www.iwillvote.com Billy Porter is busy, pan- remake. He’s writing a the LGBTQ movement demic or not. memoir — a project he through the Stonewall up- He’s just appeared in a calls the hardest thing he’s rising in 1969. virtual play about nurses ever done. Porter was born just a COMMITTEE. OR CANDIDATE’S ANY CANDIDATE BY AUTHORIZED NOT DCCC, WWW.DCCC.ORG. BY FOR PAID on the front lines. His And starting this week, Please see ACTOR | 9B 9B A&E | The Charlotte Post Thursday, October 22, 2020 Actor Billy Porter helps Monique Luck exhibit at examine origins of the the Harvey Gantt Center Continued from page 7B grasp.’ I shortened it to ‘I Feel gay rights movement Forever,’ because it is different now.” “It made me think about now how Continued from page 8B series I had not heard theater, a world obviously The second itineration of the story we are being swept few months after Stone- about before. So it’s always in crisis now. What do you features a woman wearing a crown, along these over- wall. He learned about that nice to learn something see happening with the- but still submerged in water. She has whelming paths, galvanizing moment for new. (It’s about) everything ater? On The Net mystical mermaid presence, but also with these unex- the modern gay rights before the Stonewall riots. Porter: I don’t know. strength and healing. http://monique- pected things movement as he grew up. I think there’s a lot of infor- We’ve never been here be- “Even though we can face these kind luckart.com/ happening,” Still. he says, there was a mation at the fingertips fore. ‘The show must go https://www.gantt of overwhelming circumstances or Luck said. “When lot about the movement’s post-Stonewall, (but) on’ has always been the center.org/ grief or loss or whatever we are strug- I was invited to earlier history that he there’s not a whole lot of motto. But the show is not gling with right now, there is still this do this exhibition, I didn’t know, and was able talk about what came be- going on. It is very de- kind strength and faith that we have wanted to incorpo- to learn through the docu- fore Stonewall, so it’s really pressing to walk through in the ability to overcome it,” Luck rate that story of ‘I feel forever in my series. interesting. New York City and mid- said. In four episodes, the AP: You recently did a town. I have never seen it series, premiering Thurs- public service announce- like this. I do believe that day, looks at the rise of ment during the Emmys, when it’s time to come early gay rights organiza- basically saying that Holly- back and it’s safe to come tions like the Mattachine wood is making an effort back, people will come Society and Daughters of toward more inclusive rep- back. But who’s to say Bilitis; the 20th century resentation, but there’s a when it’s going to be safe? transgender experience; lot farther to go. AP: Do you see yourself the role of the Black com- Porter: That is the direct performing live theater munity in gay rights; and message for the entertain- again?” then Stonewall. ment industry. But in the Porter: Of course. I will al- Porter sat down recently macro, it’s the message for ways do theater. Theater is to speak to The Associated the world at large. Not just the first love, theater is the Press about the project, his America, for the entire reason why I’m sitting other work, and how he’s world. You know, it’s time. here. So I will always, al- been coping during the It’s time to make a change ways return to the theater. pandemic. (The interview and a change for good. And AP: How about fashion. has been condensed for it’s about people rising up Where do you see that length.) and making that so. So world going? AP: You were born just that’s what you’re seeing Porter: Fashion is art. after the Stonewall upris- right now. And I think And art always survives. ing; do you remember what’s interesting about Art is how civilizations NETFLIX VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS when you first became this series is that it’s about heal. That’s what (late au- aware of it? people taking charge of thor) Toni Morrison says. This image released by Netflix shows characters Bungee the rabbit, left, and Fei Fei, Porter: I came out when I their lives and rising up Art has to reflect the time voiced by Cathy Ang, in a scene from “Over the Moon.” was 15, about 1985. The and making sure that we that it’s in. What that looks research wasn’t really at live up to what our Consti- like, I don’t know. You our fingertips as it is now, tution boasts, which is that know, that’s up to the art- Netflix’s charming ‘Over the but we found it some way. all men are created equal. ist, personal discretion and There were some older sur- AP: The pandemic has personal voice. But I know vivors who would teach us. changed lives. How has for certain that it will come Moon’ gets lost in lunar orbit It was always nice to know yours changed? back. It actually hasn’t as a baby gay that there Porter: It’s a global reset, gone anywhere. It’s been Continued from page 7B “Wonder Park” — and the put a great deal of thought was somebody out there that’s what I’ve been cal- flourishing. I was just at phous, gooey Candyland assortment of adorable into expressions for both who was fighting for our ling it. I’ve really been try- Christian Siriano’s show at critters 30 minutes later — sidekicks from “Frozen 2.” kids and adults. The food rights. Just as I intersect ing to make lemonade out his new house in Connect- is jarring. The sequences It also recalls the trippy pops and even the wind is with the African American of lemons. I’ve leaned in to icut last week. And it was on the moon grow tire- Technicolor shift from expressive. But the film community and our civil my self-care work. I’ve breathtaking to see the po- some, despite huge toads “The Wizard of Oz.” looses coherence and ur- rights. The two are aligned leaned into boundaries and litical fashion art that has that fly and squeaky- The original songs in- gency on the dark side of in many ways for me. It balance in relation to how I come out of this. It’s a di- voiced critters. clude eight varied and de- the moon. helps remind those of us in engage in the business and rect response, an antidote It film starts with Fei Fei lightful ones by the writing Truth be told, Chang’e — the fight on the regular how I protect my relation- to what we’re living on her quest to meet the team of Christopher Curtis voiced fantastically by Soo that good is possible. And ships, my marriage, my through. mythical Moon Goddess, (Broadway’s “Chaplin”), — is a bit of an Oz-like dic- the work is eternal. Eternal family, everything. You AP: You’re writing a Chang’e. The immortal Marjorie Du?eld and Helen tator, a lunar diva whose vigilance is the price of lib- know, I really feel like, as memoir. How has that pro- goddess lives on the moon Park (off-Broadway’s emotions determine every- erty is what Frederick horrible as this is, the cess been? waiting to reunite with her “KPOP”). thing on Lunaria. She intro- Douglass says. silver lining is that every- Porter: It’s a very difficult mortal love, the archer EDM, hip-hop, folk and duces herself with a AP: Tell us about body is awake. And if process. Yes, it is! It’s the Houyi. Fei Fei’s mother Broadway all take turns boastful K-pop banger “Ul- “EQUAL.” you’re not awake now and most difficult thing I’ve tells her the legend before shining in such songs as traluminary” — “Ya ready Porter: It was really inter- if you don’t see it for what ever had to do. Because I’m she gets sick and dies. “On the Moon Above,” to watch me be legen- esting for me as somebody it is now, you never will. All trying to tell the truth and The film jumps four “Mooncakes,” “Rocket to dary?” — like Katy Perry on who knows a lot about of the issues have been laid I’m trying to help some- years into the future and the Moon,” “Ultralumi- steroids. “She’s nothing LGBTQ history... there’s a bare. body. So that means dig- Fei Fei’s dad is considering nary,” “Hey Boy,” “Wonder- like Mama said,” points out lot of stuff in the four-part AP: Your roots are in live ging deep, and it’s hard. re-marrying, a horrific pro- ful,” “Yours Forever” and Fei Fei. spect for his daughter. Fei “Love Someone New.” The There are also Angry Fei reasons that if she can movie also uses traditional Birds-like motorcycle-rid- prove that Chang’e — and Chinese instruments, like ing chickens — biker eternal love — really do the pipa and guzheng, chicks, get it? — and a exist, her dad will ditch his while singing in Mandarin blobby lunar dog called new girlfriend. “I just want is heard. Gobi which is a little too things back the way they Director Glen Keane, who close to Josh Gad’s goofy were,” she says. So she worked on “The Little Mer- and endearing Olaf charac- starts building a rocket. maid” and “Aladdin” ter from “Frozen.” Grief was part of the among many others, Add a small frog, an film’s DNA: Screenwriter brings much of his Disney adorable bunny, a possible Audrey Wells died of experience to “Over the step-brother and a magical cancer in 2018 while the Moon,” this time making hare and things get over- film was being made and his feature directorial loaded. It’s a shame that the final product is ded- debut. He’s now helped viewers after a while will icated to her memory, with Netflix get into the ani- long for the pull of gravity. some lines like “you have mated musical game, “Over the Moon,” a Net- to move on” all the more thanks to this collaboration flix/Pearl Studio release, is poignant. between China’s Pearl Stu- rated PG for “some the- Unfortunately, the film dio and Sony Pictures. matic elements and mild has echoes of previous ani- Fei Fei’s build up for her action.” Running time: 99 mated fare — like the mis- moonshot and the launch minutes. sing mother and is perhaps the most thril- Three stars out of four. engineering-bent of the ling element of the film young heroine from and the animators have DAVID LEE/NETFLIX VIA AP This image released by Netflix shows Michael Potts, from left, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe’s Au- gust Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” showcasing Chadwick Boseman’s final Rocker Lenny Kravitz performance opposite Viola Davis’ powerhouse blues singer. looks back to when he Netflix previews ‘Ma finally found his voice By Mark Kennedy up. That’s what I want to living in a mansion,” he Rainey’ and Boseman’s spend my time on,” he says. “The middle — ob- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS says. “So let’s stop there. viously, that’s fine, too. But NEW YORK — Lenny And then we’ll see if they’ll what I’m saying is I don’t Kravitz is a man of ex- be a second book in the fu- feel it the same way. It final acting performance tremes — as he readily ad- ture.” doesn’t feed me the same mits. By Jake Coyle formance has been said to sented by video confer- He’s not exaggerating way. I like balancing ex- be among the finest of his ence, included a band, in “I am deeply two-sided: about that childhood. He tremes.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS black and white, Jewish career, and the scenes pre- masks, performing music alternated between the Kravitz, 56, dedicated the NEW YORK — Netflix on viewed Monday only re- from the film scored by and Christian, Manhattan then-tough Brooklyn book to his mother, actress Monday previewed George and Brooklynite,” he writes inforced that notion. Branford Marsalis. Netflix, neighborhood of Bedford– Roxie Roker, who was best C. Wolfe’s August Wilson Set in Chicago 1927, which will debut it Dec. 18 about his first 25 years Stuyvesant and in a known for her role in “The adaptation “Ma Rainey’s alive in his new memoir Davis stars as Ma Rainey, a on the streaming service, is swanky building with Jeffersons” as Helen Willis, Black Bottom,” showcasing fiery singer known as the expected to push “Ma “Let Love Rule,” released carved cherubs on the half of one of TV’s first in- Chadwick Boseman’s final last week and named after “Mother of the Blues.” Rainey’s Black Bottom” for Upper East Side of Manhat- terracial couples. TV pro- performance opposite Boseman plays Levee, an Academy Awards consid- his 1989 debut album. tan. He ate chopped liver ducer Sy Kravitz, his father Viola Davis’ powerhouse “The book is about me ambitious trumpeter ai- eration, particularly Davis on matzo as well as fried and a former military man, blues singer. ming to launch himself and Boseman. (Wilson, finding my voice and find- fish coated with cornmeal. was strict with the younger The film, shot last year, ing my path and walking with his own updated ver- himself, was the last per- The extremes continued Kravitz. was already one of the sions of Ma Rainey’s songs. son to receive a posthu- into my destiny, whatever during his life. For his sixth Dad and son would year’s most anticipated, that is,” he tells The Asso- “Levee got to be Levee!” mous Oscar nomination in birthday, he was sere- frequently clash, culminat- coming as the next chapter exclaims Boseman, as 2016, 11 year after his ciated Press. naded by Duke Ellington ing in a blowout that would in Denzel Washington’s The 270-page book Levee, in a passionate death, for the “Fences” and his band at the famed change both their lives. ongoing project to turn monologue. “And he don’t script.) written along with David Rainbow Room. Years later, The younger Kravitz says Wilson’s plays into films, Ritz explores his very spe- need nobody messing with Wolfe said Boseman “put his home was a Ford Pinto, writing about his father following 2016’s Oscar- him about the white man, his entire being into the cial childhood and ends which he rented for $4.99 was healing. winning “Fences.” But with Kravitz on the verge ’cause you don’t know part.” Davis described a day. “Any judgment that I had since the unexpected death nothing about me. You Boseman as unusually ego- of stardom and deeply in “The extremes really began to dissolve as I was in August of 43-year-old love with actress Lisa don’t know Levee. You less. At the time of filming, work for me. I felt them. looking at him with these Boseman from colon don’t know nothing about Boseman was coming off Bonet. I’m comfortable living in a fresh eyes and open heart,” cancer, “Ma Rainey’s Black “I had such a childhood what blood I got! What kind the massive success of car or a box or a tent or a he says. “Any of those Bottom” has taken on a ele- of heart I got beating here!” “Avengers: Endgame” and and experience growing trailer, and I’m comfortable giac aura. Boseman’s per- Please see ROCKER | 10B The event Monday, pre- Please see MA | 10B 10B A&E | The Charlotte Post Thursday, October 22, 2020 ‘Sesame Street’ launches ‘Ma Rainey’ preview of podcast to educate kids By Mark Kennedy Boseman’s last role THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — What has for the play’s 2010 Broadway revival, Continued from page 6B more letters than the al- plays Ma Rainey as a commanding, “Black Panther.” phabet? That’s easy: The hip-swinging diva she said she mod- “Not to compete with Chadwick’s post office. eled after her aunt. mother but Chadwick is my baby,” That joke — sponsored “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was the said Davis, who played Boseman’s by the letter A — is a high- first play Wilson wrote in 1984, and mother in the James Brown biopic light of the first original the only one of this 10-part Century “Get on Up.” “Chadwick was just an podcast from “Sesame Cycle not set in Pittsburgh. Washing- artist. That’s just who he was.” Street,” featuring music, in- ton has said he wants to adapt the “He loved it. He demanded it. He de- teractive games and Mup- other eight plays in a deal that moved manded it in every single way,” added pets galore. to Netflix after first being at HBO. Davis, who like most wasn’t aware of “The Sesame Street Pod- “August lets us talk as people of Boseman’s illness during the shoot. cast with Foley & Friends” color. Other people look at it and say, “For someone so young it was incred- is an offering on Audible ‘Why do they go on and on?’ My whole ible to watch that level of not mistak- that gives some screen-free thing is: Why not?” said Davis. “We ing your presence for the event.” educational entertainment have a lot to say, and there’s been a Davis, who won an Oscar for her to kids who may be having muzzle placed on us or so long.” performance in “Fences” and a Tony spotty school lessons dur-

ing the coronavirus pan- demic. AUDIBLE VIA AP “We think it’s so impor- tant to have this other me- An image of cover art for "The Sesame Street Podcast with dium besides screens for Foley & Friends." The podcast, led by 6-year-old furry monster playful, fun, engaging epi- Foley and her sidekick Mikee the Microphone, gives some screen-free educational entertainment to kids who may be sodes that are also curricu- having spotty school lessons during the pandemic. Rocker Lenny Kravitz looks lum driven and really address the important edu- about the alphabet,” Foley ville, New York. “My whole cational needs for young says in the first episode. “I life, I was always making back to when he found his voice children,” said Jennifer love those A, B, Cs,” replies funny sounds.” Schiffman Sanders, the di- Mikee. Since her new gig is just Continued from page 8B The thing about Lenny, ar- On the romance front, he rector of content, educa- The first guest is some- voice work, Briggs doesn’t harsh feelings that I had tistically and personally, dated Tisha Campbell of tion and research for one who especially likes have to worry about ma- went away and I began to he’s just a man of great “Martin” and met his now- Sesame Workshop. the letter B — Big Bird. The nipulating puppets, lip actually love my father in a courage,” Ritz says. Writ- ex-wife, Bonet, at a New The podcast is led by 6- letters A, B and C also join synching or coordinating different way that I didn’t ing it together was “like Edition concert. year-old, exuberant Foley, (“we don’t have room from with a TV monitor. “For get to love him when he being in a studio where “I like your hair,” he told “the sound-maker mon- D-Z,” they argue) For the A, me, it’s super freeing,” she was alive.” you’re jamming.” her. In the book he ad- ster.” She’s joined by her we hear alligator sounds said. “Not having to think Kravitz has the look and Kravitz’s musical in- mitted, “It was a lame line.” sidekick, Mikee the Micro- and for B there are balloon about almost half of that sound of a rock god, with a fluences emerge as Prince, Their blossoming rela- phone, a microphone with sounds. stuff is awesome.” stripped-down style of Michael Jackson, Earth tionship ends the book. “It googly eyes. Together they Schiffman Sanders pre- Briggs, as well as her hus- straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll Wind & Fire and David was like she was the female tell jokes, sing songs and viously taught pre-school band and their two boys, 7, that earned him Grammy Bowie, who inspired Krav- version of me, and in see- host familiar guests from and helped “Sesame and 5, fled New York City Awards four years in a row, itz to get color-changing ing her, I was able to see the neighborhood, like Street” transition from a during the lockdown to from 1999 to 2002. contact lenses. The book myself,” he writes. Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie visually vibrant TV show to western New York. They’ve But he’s not afraid to also explores Kravitz’s Kravitz writes that his Monster. an aural experience. found an unusual place to show a sillier side in the spirituality and his experi- first 25 years was a mis- “Each podcast really fo- “I kept remembering, create the podcast — their book, like the first — and ence of being born again. sion to find his true, au- cuses on school readiness ‘OK, but if they can’t see it, town’s fallout shelter. But last — time he got drunk, His first band was Wave thentic self. He turned skills,” said Schiffman how can we bring it to life? they’ve made it work. which was with a bottle of — “the Gap Band meets the down record deals that put Sanders. “It also addresses What do we need to do to The podcast kicked off Manischewitz, or getting Jacksons meets Rick James him in a box and he even really critical social emo- keep children engaged?’” last week and there are 15 busted once for shoplifting meets Shalamar meets the created an alter ego — tional skills like resilience she said. episodes, released Tues- five KISS cassettes. There’s Time.” They had fog ma- named Romeo Blue — be- and kindness, which is Foley, a new character, is days and Thursdays. Ses- even an insane sequence in chines and sound effects, cause he didn’t think he something we could all use voiced by Lindsey “Z” ame Workshop hopes which a young Kravitz an elaborate light show was cool enough at the a little more of these days.” Briggs, a professional pup- families will listen to- saves a teenage prostitute and a staggering 15 time. Each 15-minute episode peteer since 2004 who, gether, whether in the car, from a pimp and stashes members. “Part of this book is will revolve around a dif- with her puppeteer hus- making dinner or before her in his bedroom. Among some interesting about me accepting myself ferent preschool-friendly band, Chad Williams, bedtime. Ritz, the co-writer, com- business decisions: He was as Lenny Kravitz, as this topic, from vehicles and created the company Won- “It’s been an absolute plimented Kravitz for handed “Somebody’s half-black, half-Jewish kid animals to birthdays and derSpark Puppets. She pre- bright spot in the midst of being so hands-on Watching Me” by Kennedy that had this experience,” learning the alphabet. viously gave life to the everything that’s been hap- throughout the years it Gordy, son of legendary he says. “One of the won- There are recurring mo- Muppet Dalia for Sesame pening. It’s been this one took to finish the book. He producer Berry Gordy. But derful gifts that one could ments, like “Elmo’s Joke of Workshop. thing that I can look at and says his co-writer was open Kravitz declined. So the give themselves in this life the Day,” songs and a “I’ve always loved mak- say, ‘But you know what? and ready to explore any- younger Gordy went on to is to accept yourself.” game show. ing different voices,” she We did this amazing thing. record the hit song under “Today on the podcast said by phone from her thing,’” Briggs said. “He’s got a lot of courage. the name Rockwell. we’re going to be talking all family’s home in Spring- Order from anywhere. 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